View From Pont Transbordeur
Artist
Herbert Bayer
(American, born Austria, 1900 - 1985)
Date1928; printed 1978
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/4 × 8 inches (31.12 × 20.32 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2561
Signednone
InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: ""View from Port Transbordeur" - 1928" / "print made from the original Bayer negative #9 / at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House / 1976 By Michael Allen Murphy / Portriga-Rapid paper, archivally finished (protective selenium +He-1".
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "9";
On sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "78:071:112 mp";
On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "B357", "31-3-78".
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DescriptionAerial image of a building with a clay tile roof. Steel cables from bridge in front of building form a "W" shape in center of frame.ProvenanceHerbert Bayer, Montecito, CA;
Purchased from Herbert Bayer's sale, Contemporary Photographs, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, October 14, 1978, lot 20, by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1978;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Herbert Bayer's sale, Contemporary Photographs, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, October 14, 1978, lot 20, by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1978;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Herbert Bayer/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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